Talk:Jerome Cavanagh

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Michigan: Detroit Mid‑importance

	Michigan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Michigan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Michigan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MichiganWikipedia:WikiProject MichiganTemplate:WikiProject MichiganMichigan articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Detroit task force.

What is the Correct Spelling of his Last Name?[edit]

His last name is spelled in different ways throughout the article. That needs to be corrected.John Paul Parks (talk) 06:01, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

There is no definitive Cavanagh biography that I am aware of. The best known book about Detroit in the 1960s in Thomas Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis, but that book is extremely incomplete in that it contains nothing about Detroit's sky-high taxes and neglects the role of the riots in destroying the city.

The most thorough study of the riots is Sidney Fine's Violence in the Model City.-- Dinopup

The information about the 1967 riot was interesting, but a bit off-topic so I removed it. I didn't want to lose it, though, so I incorporated it in the article about the riot, 12th Street Riot. --Chowbok 20:34, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

I think the information about the riots is very relevant. The riots illustrate the flaw in Cavanagh's position. He defeated Miriani by siding with the blacks. He marched with Martin Luther King down Woodward Avenue. His naive appeasement efforts got him nowhere, because the riots came, and the people who actually worked and supported the city moved away. The city's decline began in 1967 after the riots. It has never recovered, and it never will. The city is a wall-to-wall slum. John Paul Parks (talk) 13:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to know why the author believes that if the Big Three had wanted to rid themselves of unions, they'd move 20-30 miles into ex/suburbs where they'd still be unionized. That's ridiculous. It seems to me to be more conservative hobble gobble: Blame unions for everything wrong in this country despite the fact that our standard of living was created by those unions.

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Jerome Cavanagh/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Article provides a basic assessment of who Cavanagh was but is disorganized and without citations. Oneworld25 17:41, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 17:41, 2 March 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 19:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)